Informed Choices for Struggling Adolescent Readers

by Deshler, Donald D.

• ISBN13: 9780872074651
• ISBN10: 087207465X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-05-08
• Publisher: Intl Literacy Assn

Summary

As they move up through the grades, adolescent learners encounter increasingly complex content across subject areas, while they also negotiate new personal and social worlds. For adolescents who struggle with reading, the challenges are particularly great-as are the challenges for you, the middle and secondary teachers, principals, specialists, and district administrators dedicated to helping every student succeed.

Author Biography

Donald D. Deshler is a professor in the School of Education at the University of Kansas, where he also directs the Center for Research on Learning Annemarie Sullivan Palincsar holds the Walgreen Chair in Reading and Literacy and is a teacher educator in Educational Studies at the University of Michigan Gina Biancarosa is a postdoctoral fellow at the Stanford University School of Education's Institute for Research on Education Policy and Practice Marnie Nair conducts research at the Graduate School of Education, Harvard University, where she received her doctorate in Language and Literacy

Table of Contents

About the Authors	p. v
Acknowledgments	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
Principles for Improving Adolescent Literacy	p. 9
Adolescent Literacy: Myths and Realities	p. 11
The Content of Adolescent Literacy Instruction	p. 37
Characteristics and Supports of Adolescent Literacy Instruction	p. 49
Costs of Implementing Adolescent Literacy Programs	p. 61
School and District Change to Improve Adolescent Literacy	p. 92
Specific Instructional Programs	p. 111
Criteria for Selecting Programs	p. 113
Criteria for Evaluating Programs	p. 115
Using the Information Provided in Part II	p. 117
Types of Students Served	p. 122
Included Features	p. 124
Evaluated Features	p. 126
Skills, Strategies, and Knowledge Taught	p. 128
Program Summaries	p. 130
Academy of READING	p. 130
Accelerated Reader	p. 132
Achieve3000	p. 135
Achieving Maximum Potential Reading System	p. 137
Advancement Via Individual Determination	p. 138
AfterSchool KidzLit	p. 140
America's Choice-Ramp-Up Literacy	p. 142
Benchmark Word Detectives	p. 145
Concept-Oriented Reading Instruction	p. 147
Corrective Reading	p. 149
Disciplinary Literacy	p. 151
Failure Free Reading	p. 153
First Steps/STEPS	p. 156
Junior Great Books	p. 157
Knowledge Box	p. 160
LANGUAGE!	p. 161
Learning Upgrade	p. 163
Lexia Strategies for Older Students	p. 164
Lindamood-Bell	p. 165
LitART	p. 168
My Reading Coach	p. 169
Passport Reading Journeys	p. 171
Peer-Assisted Learning Strategies	p. 173
Phono-graphix	p. 175
PLATO Learning	p. 177
Project CRISS	p. 178
Puente	p. 181
Questioning the Author	p. 183
READ 180	p. 186
READ RIGHT	p. 189
Reading Apprenticeship	p. 191
Reading Is FAME (Girls and Boys Town)	p. 193
Reading Power in the Content Areas	p. 196
Reciprocal Teaching	p. 197
REWARDS	p. 199
Saxon Phonics Intervention	p. 201
Scaffolded Reading Experience	p. 202
Soar to Success	p. 204
Spell Read P.A.T.	p. 206
Strategic Instruction Model	p. 208
Success for All	p. 211
Talent Development High Schools	p. 213
Thinking Reader	p. 216
Transactional Strategies Instruction	p. 218
Vocabulary Improvement Program	p. 220
Voyager TimeWarp Plus	p. 222
Wilson Reading System	p. 224
WriteToLearn	p. 225
Emerging Adolescent Literacy Programs	p. 229
References	p. 231
Author Index	p. 245
Subject Index	p. 251
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